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2017 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2426th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 28, 2017 20:30 | October 29, 2017 03:15 | 6h 45m | 1,631 | 3,131 |
| 2 | October 20, 2017 13:30 | October 20, 2017 17:15 | 3h 45m | 1,574 | 594 |
| 3 | October 28, 2017 06:30 | October 28, 2017 11:00 | 4h 30m | 1,422 | 1,441 |
| 4 | October 23, 2017 09:30 | October 23, 2017 19:00 | 9h 30m | 1,294 | 1,829 |
| 5 | October 20, 2017 02:30 | October 20, 2017 05:15 | 2h 45m | 672 | 676 |
| 6 | October 11, 2017 01:15 | October 11, 2017 03:15 | 2h | 668 | 845 |
| 7 | December 12, 2017 12:15 | December 12, 2017 18:30 | 6h 15m | 607 | 1,400 |
| 8 | October 23, 2017 03:30 | October 23, 2017 05:15 | 1h 45m | 599 | 1,048 |
| 9 | October 25, 2017 10:30 | October 25, 2017 13:45 | 3h 15m | 348 | 96 |
| 10 | September 11, 2017 15:45 | September 12, 2017 00:00 | 8h 15m | 318 | 270 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Lee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.32 | 3.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Opelika - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Alabama's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 63,579 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Lee County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee County, AL annual power outage report, 2017, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/alabama/lee-county